Premium features

WiFi Manager has several premium features, available for purchase for $1.95 as a single package right in the application using Google Wallet.

Important: Google will store your order under your account. This means you only pay once even if you later install new firmware / reset your phone / get a new one. The application will restore your existing order and activate again, as many times as necessary.

Not really. If a network is “saved” as “known” in Android (and this is based on SSID) – Android’s WiFi code will 1) consider it for automatically connecting 2) will match it against any network (any BSSID) that matches the SSID and its security type. The only way, if you can do this, is to “forget” the network – but to connect to this SSID (whatever the BSSID) you’ll be required to re-enter the password.

Michael W

March 11, 2018 at 10:29 pm

Forgot to mention, these are open hotspots. For example at home my phone always wants to connect to xfinitywifi. Will your app allow me to avoid connecting to this?

Hi. A question please: does the premium version automatically switch between network nodes when I move around the building? Suppose I simply have my email application open, will the premium version switch automatically as I move from one floor to another?
Thanks
Marc

Hi I would like to know if the pay version allow you to delete the listed connections which I do not use anymore because holiday hotels or what else. Right now I’ve a bloody list of these which can’t be deleted. Thanks

You don’t have to purchase the Pro version for this. Just tap on “live networks” and choose “known networks” – and then tap one and choose “forget”.

Please note that because of a change made by Google, when the phone uses a recent Android version (6.0 and newer), third party apps are not allowed to “forget” those “known” networks (the app will tell you if this is the case).

And then if so, you’ll have to use the phone’s built-in Settings -> WiFi to “forget” the unwanted “known” networks.

Hi, it should activate again automatically when you run it. If not – please bring up Menu -> About premium version (the purchase screen) and wait a little, it will request your old order from Google should activate. Thanks.

Hi Kostya, One doubt before buying… The {15 / 30 seconds or more} scan for better signal networks happens only after the selected threshold is reached or it ALWAYS is scanning for network changes? I ask because of the battery drain. Thank you

Hi Julian. The “best network switcher” is free so you can try it out. It doesn’t wake up the device (assuming that if the phone is in deep sleep, there is “nobody” to use the any better network). Finally please see this link for more detailed info: https://kmansoft.com/2013/09/08/wifi-manager-2-7-0/

There is no separate version for the “premium” version – it’s “in app”. And it should activate automatically (and there should be no ads). Please try uninstalling / reinstalling the latest version from Google Play. If it doesn’t activate within the first few minutes after opening the app’s window – please try to bring up the app’s purchase screen (via the menu) and it will ask Google for your existing purchase and should activate then.

What does this bit of your Play store description mean – “”Change system settings” used by the “access point / tether” widget”?

I am looking for an app that sets the channel of my Android 6.0 phone’s WiFi hotspot – sets it to any particular channel either permanently or at least until the next phone restart.

Reason for my question –
– Unlike my previous phone’s Android 4, the Android 6 WiFi hotspot chooses whatever channel it wants whenever it is turned back on.
– I use my phone’s WiFi hotspot as the internet connection for my home network.
– My “Wireless ISP” router demands that a WiFi channel is specified for its Wireless ISP connection in addition to an SSID & security key.
– So every time I turn my phone’s hotspot back on, I have to tell the router to search again so I can manually re-select the same SSID on its new channel then restart the router to implement the change.
– So I have to keep the WiFi hotspot on permanently to avoid having to keep reconfiguring the router.

It means – the _undocumented_ Android function to enable the WiFi hotspot requires that the app requesting the change (on/off) holds the “WRITE_SETTINGS” permission. And even this is undocumented and not supposed to be accessible to (third party) apps. So as far as setting the channel, that’s “waaay beyond” just enabling / disabling the hotspot which is all my app is able to do.

Since the last update the access point toggle will not work anymore. Through the standard Android settings it still works to activate the AP, so it’s really the widget that is the problem. Galaxy Note 4, Android 6.0.1.

That’s because 4.1 is not in Play yet (you must have installed from the forum). Please either way for 4.1 release to Play (I’m hoping to start a gradual release in about a week), or else you can install the older version from Play, make your purchase, and then update to 4.1 in-place (without a full reinstall), which will keep it activated.

Yes can u pls give me a lil bit of information for how to secure my wifi and information when I’m using an open wifi network… Or at least wht I can do to help protect me against any kind of hackers or leaked data…. Thank you and hope to hear back soon…. And I really love this app as far as saving and making a good connection when I’m wanting to use wifi

Re: extenders. If they have same SSID (but distinct BSSIDs) – sorry WiFi Manager doesn’t understand that. I’m working on a new version with a fix. It’s slow going (weekend project) but it’ll get there.

Re: below. Below means “worse”. So the setting is -40dbm, the app will consider switching if the current connection is -41dbm or -45dbm or -50dbm, but not when it’s -39dbm.

A well designed, useful app- many thanks. But recently, the wdget fails to update, both on a tablet (Marshmallow) and a phone (Nougat). It displays the SSID and speed of the prior network. Clearing the app cache does not resolve the issue.

WiFi Manager hasn’t been updated since Dec 2015, so the issue most likely has to do with some sort of “battery optimizer” that you’re using on your phone and tablet.

Could be a built-in thing, for example, both Huawei and Xiaomi devices have those, enabled by default (and other manufacturers may too). For both Huawei and Xiaomi, there is a way to set an app as “protected” or “excluded” from these “battery optimizations”.

Rch wstn

March 24, 2017 at 10:15 pm

You are completely right. Both the phone (Samsung) and the tablet (Asus) have power management features. Disabling those for Wifi Manager solved the problem. I would never have thought of that. Many, many thanks.